Students will learn about how the international community tries to help children once they become child soldiers.
Guiding Questions:
What is demobilization and why is it important?
What is reintegration?
Content Objective:
Students will be able to define demobilization and reintegration, as it relates to child soldiers. Students will be able to evaluate proposed solutions for demobilization and integration.
Langauge Objective:
Students will be able write a persuasive paragraph about why child soldiers is an important a global issue.
Vocabulary:
reintegration
demobilization
SEI Strategy:
Use a jigsaw to analyze the experience of reintegration for child soldiers and/or suggestions from Save the Children.
Suggested Agenda:
Create a jigsaw of activity based on profiles and suggestions from Save the Children. Have groups of students present to each other (and coach public speaking skills that students will be using the following week). Model analysis using the Ishmael Beah video.
For each, pay particularly attention to source (Who created this? For what purpose? When? Who is the intended audience?) as well as content.
Title:
Demobilization and ReintegrationGoal:
Students will learn about how the international community tries to help children once they become child soldiers.Content Objective:
Students will be able to define demobilization and reintegration, as it relates to child soldiers.Students will be able to evaluate proposed solutions for demobilization and integration.
Langauge Objective:
Students will be able write a persuasive paragraph about why child soldiers is an important a global issue.Vocabulary:
reintegrationdemobilization
SEI Strategy:
Use a jigsaw to analyze the experience of reintegration for child soldiers and/or suggestions from Save the Children.Suggested Agenda:
Create a jigsaw of activity based on profiles and suggestions from Save the Children. Have groups of students present to each other (and coach public speaking skills that students will be using the following week). Model analysis using the Ishmael Beah video.For each, pay particularly attention to source (Who created this? For what purpose? When? Who is the intended audience?) as well as content.
Suggested Resources:
- paraphrase the ideas in a list to the side and evaluate which proposals have the most potential